Following the chilling announcement by the World Wildlife Fund that world animal populations have dropped by roughly 25 percent since 1970, another animal native to China has been declared extinct.
A research team of anthropologists from Zurich University working in conjunction with the Kunming Institute of Zoology declared the Yunnan white-handed gibbon to be extinct. The [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Goodbye, Yunnan white-handed gibbon: goodbye FOREVER!
Posted in environment, tagged animal-extinction, animals, apes, China, extinct, extinction, gibbon, monkeys, primates, white-handed gibbon, Yunnan, Yunnan white-handed gibbon on Saturday, 31 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
animal abuse: Pata “zoo”, Bangkok
Posted in Bangkok's Pata "zoo", tagged abuse, animal abuse, animal cruelty, animal misuse, animals, bad zoos, Bangkok, Buana, Bwanoi, cruelty, Kanit Sermsirimongkol, misuse, Pata, pata department store, Pata shopping mall, Pata zoo, Thailand on Tuesday, 27 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Believe it or not: near the river in the Patta shopping mall one finds exotic animals at the 6th and the top-floor! This “zoo” is showing reptiles etc. at the 6th floor and….. a Gorilla, other species of monkeys, 2 tigers, bears, a Hippo, to mention only the biggest species! Both tigers have around 10 [...]
Animals as artists ……or all zoos in “business”
Posted in various animal abuse, tagged abuse, animal abuse, animals, artists, elephants, painting, zoos on Friday, 23 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Animals as artists … seriously
4:31 PM, May 7, 2008
For decades, zoos and aquariums across the country have encouraged animals to paint as a way to keep the penned-up denizens mentally enriched. Typically, the paintings were discarded or set aside.
But the Associated Press reports that officials have recently discovered that animal lovers are willing pay even [...]
Bangkok’s shame or the not reacting Thai authorities
Posted in begging street elephants in Thailand, tagged abuse, animal abuse, animals, Bangkok, begging, begging elephants, begging street elephants in Thailand, city elephants, elephants, mahouts, street elephants, Sukhumvit, Sukhumvit Rd., Thailand on Thursday, 22 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The begging elephants are getting in the street-scene of Bangkok (and other towns) again more and more common unfortunately. This abuse is against the Thai law but this law has not been enforced in a proper way. One of the reasons is that, when the authorities are coming into action the mahouts are getting besurk, [...]
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